At airports around the world, hundreds of aircraft are retired to desert graveyards every year. Many are dismantled for parts; others are left to rust. What if these could get a second chance on the ...
NEW ORLEANS — The United Cajun Navy believes it has made a major breakthrough in the search for a plane that went missing over Lake Pontchartrain earlier this week. Crews on Saturday located what they ...
Aero Vodochody’s L-39NG has passed fuselage strength tests, as the company works towards certification of the advanced jet trainer. Using the fuselage of aircraft 7002, which is earmarked for static ...
As part of the EU-funded Clean Sky 2/Clean Aviation project “Large Passenger Aircraft” (“LPA”), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Stade, Germany, together with international project partners, has joined ...
WICHITA — It takes more than 200,000 fasteners to hold a Boeing 737 together, and many of them are installed manually by mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems. "You can run your finger down and feel how ...
A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully arrived at ...
Boeing is defending the integrity of the fuselages on two of its largest planes, which have come under criticism from a whistleblower who warns that panels on the outside of one of the planes could ...
While old planes typically get shipped off to aircraft boneyards, one savvy tiny home builder has found a new use for an old part taken from a retired plane. Brisbane-based The Tiny House Guys has ...
Boeing Co. said it’s seeing a sharp drop in defects on 737 Max fuselages arriving from supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. and an uptick in the pace at which the cashcow planes move through its ...
Spirit AeroSystems’ latest Boeing 737 Max production agreement for 2020 covers barely a third of the fuselages it delivered in 2018, and appears to put Boeing at least four years behind its ramp-up ...
As Boeing works to improve quality, it's in talks to buy one of its key suppliers. NPR spoke to workers at the Spirit AeroSystems factory in... Inside the factory where a key Boeing supplier builds ...